Wall

Nuno Oliveira

26Nov12

Powerful, powerful ending.

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TFCHooligan69

10Oct12

Sembene's debut is a masterpiece! Mbissine Thérèse Diop with an impressive performance in the lead role.

Primera película que veo del continente olvidado —si se lo puede llamar así—, me gustó mucho. Es una película simple pero a la vez con un mensaje fuerte y complejo. ¿Qué otras obras me deparan?. Confío plenamente en el cine africano. Más que recomendada.

Aguaespejo

18May12

Fable-like, spare, complex & rhythmic. The way any propaganda film should be. I wanted to say that the (now) (all too) familiar (postcolonial) narrative is universalized & transcended in the last magical scene. Except while this is true, it is also true that the movie always also maintains its concrete political commitment. A movie to wake your soul to face the strictures of reality and to TRY to rewrite them.

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Daniela

30Jan12

Music was great, ending was perfect. Pretty excellent overall. I'm still a little confused, though. Did Diouanna understand French or not? Was she pretending not to speak it?

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Christofer Pierson

3Dec11

A rich, complex fable of Africa under European bondage told in beautiful and wonderfully simple filmic language. The final images pack a punch.

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ramosbarajas

12Oct11

The film says a lot about race relations in Africa, and especially in France, one of its colonizers. Left with no option but quiet revolutions, the girl passively follows fate, allowing others to dictate over her. The film, only one hour long, is powerful and tries to dissect racist attitudes but falls short on several points.

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Filme

24May11

I hope this is good...thx netflix

Pierre Andre

9Apr11

In Dakar, a mask is a mask and a woman is a woman. But in France, the mask ceases to be a mask and becomes a wall decoration and Diouanne ceases to be a woman and becomes essentially a slave. It isn't until the beautiful haunting ending when the boy follows Diouanne's old boss like a ghost, that he makes sure the Frenchman never forgets that the mask was always a mask and Diouanne was always a woman.

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